I’m pretty sure I didn’t mention that I had my third visit with the midwife a week and a half ago… that would be 10 days ago, to be exact. And 7 hours. So I have a few more days to wait until I can test, and I’m not going to do it any sooner because I found out last time that just messes with my head.
I’m on meds this time around, as I mentioned, and the temperature chart actually did help me figure out When My Period Starts. So that’s an improvement. It helps that there turns out to be a woman at the fertility clinic who uses email. And she Answers Questions!! I also discovered a divine quirk in the universe’s tendency toward irritating chaos: the fertility clinic has someone on staff whose only job is to wrangle with insurance. I’m telling you now, it really might be worth going through fertility therapy just to have this woman call you out of nowhere and tell you she’s talking to your insurance people and will let your pharmacist know what to do when she’s done. I had tears in my eyes when she convinced my prescription insurance company to replace the $370 sticker price with my $40 copay on this extra special progesterone suppository no one actually stocked, and then told the pharmacist, and then made sure it was available for me to pick up that day. I was on her Call List, she said.
I know I don’t have to tell you, I’m not kidding: Tears in my eyes.
Okay, so I got set with my meds and joined the ranks of the Ovulation Obsessed, displaying three brands of predictor kits on my bathroom sink, taking multiple breaks from a conference to secretly pee on sticks, monitoring every glass of water I drank (not too much! can’t pee again for 2 hours!). Very intense and, frankly, weird. But we’re past that.
I even called the manufacturer of one of the ovulation kits to find out why it didn’t give me the same data as the other. Ended up spending half an hour on the phone telling him the difference between the test sensitivity levels, how to determine ovulation from looking at a cervix, and the pros and cons of letrozole vs clomid and endometrin vs the other one… If I weren’t certain this is all going into a suspended cache of short-term memory, I’d begin my new fertility counselling career right now. I could use a change.
hi m,
progress… hang in there!
we think of you lots and are sending warm thoughts – we miss your presence in this state and our house… (C said if you visited you would know EXACTLY when your period started… hee hee)
(… (except for that memory thing?) you would be a great (travelling?) fertility counselor – what a brilliant idea…)
love you lots,
lcb+l
I am considering hiring you as my fertility counsellor! I’m learning so much from you already, and keep thinking all sorts of good woo woo thoughts for you as you proceed.
looking forward to reading good news.
judith (courtney’s pal, heading down this same path in a few months!)